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Apr 29, 2010
Apr 23, 2010
Pics: Jay and Bee do Hawaii!
Beyonce Knowles stuck with a one piece instead of a bikini, but still showed off her amazing curves yesterday afternoon when she hit the beach in Hawaii. She and Jay-Z headed West earlier in the week for a family vacation with her nephew Julez, after a fun and music-filled weekend together at Coachella. Jay-Z was in a pair of appropriately floral swim trunks to document their day by the water, and he was there to snap photos as Beyonce let Julez bury her in the sand. [PopSugar]
Apr 17, 2010
Video: Jay-Z at Coachella 2010
Apr 16, 2010
Live Stream: Coachella 2010
In the Jesus Christ-this-was-done-to-the-wire department, we’re now pleased to announce that Jay-Z will be performing tonight at Coachella.
Oh right, you knew that.
Coachella: Jay-Z added to tonight's live stream! [Myspace Users]
Coachella: Jay-Z added to tonight's live stream! [Facebook Users]
Oh right, you knew that.
Well, we’ll also be livestreaming his set tonight on the site at 10:50 PM PST (1:50 AM ET). If you haven’t gotten your Coachella app so you can watch the concert all weekend, you can do so right here. Set it up, find a nice quiet place, and get ready to brush that dirt off your shoulder. [Beyonce has been confirmed to perform alonside Jay tonight.]
Coachella: Jay-Z added to tonight's live stream! [Myspace Users]
Coachella: Jay-Z added to tonight's live stream! [Facebook Users]
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Pics: Jay-Z & Beyonce do Coachella [FadedYouthBlog]
Apr 13, 2010
Pics: Jay leaving Bar Pitti
Jay-Z was spotted leaving dinner at Bar Pitti. As he left a guy tried to get him to buy some M&M’s but Jay tells him”nah I don’t eat chocolate”.
Apr 8, 2010
Jay-Z Widens the Festival Tent
Jay-Z goes where rappers have not tread before: headlining Britain's rocker Glastonbury Festival two years ago and leading the way in Coachella this year.
In 2008, when Jay-Z was named as a headlining act for Britain's fiercely rock-centric Glastonbury Festival -- a first for any hip-hop performer, let alone one of rap's epochal superstars -- the island nation erupted in furious debate. They're giving a rapper domain over one of rock's elite events? Critics derided the decision as "a disaster" and "tragic," assailing Glastonbury itself as "contaminated." No less an eminence than Noel Gallagher of the Brit-pop quintet Oasis provided an antagonistic voice of dissent. "I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance," Gallagher said in an interview with the BBC, citing the festival's "history of guitar music."
To Jay (birth name: Shawn Corey Carter), the situation smacked of segregation. "That was the old guard standing in the way, saying, 'This is rock music. This is sacred,' " he said, seated in his wood-lined corner office, a stone's throw from Times Square. "It was one of those hurdles we had to break down."
"It felt like we were invading a country," Jay said. " 'Whoa. There's a lot of people out there.' I had never played before that many people in my life. 'What did we just do? This had better work.' "
Read More: Jay-Z widens the festival tent [LA Times]
Reporting from New York
The plan was to rock the mike, not cause an identity crisis.
To Jay (birth name: Shawn Corey Carter), the situation smacked of segregation. "That was the old guard standing in the way, saying, 'This is rock music. This is sacred,' " he said, seated in his wood-lined corner office, a stone's throw from Times Square. "It was one of those hurdles we had to break down."
B-boy braggadocio is one thing, but a certain performance anxiety set in when the rapper first laid eyes on Glastonbury's heaving masses: nearly a quarter-million festival-goers camped out in a vast tent city surrounding the outdoor venue in the British countryside. Around 70,000 of them -- some openly hostile -- awaited his set.
"It felt like we were invading a country," Jay said. " 'Whoa. There's a lot of people out there.' I had never played before that many people in my life. 'What did we just do? This had better work.' " Not only did he manage to win over the crowd -- thanks, in part, to his opening number, a cheeky cover of Oasis' biggest hit, "Wonderwall" -- but the artist known variously as Jigga Man and Young Hova in the process established a whole new enterprise. With what he calls his Glastonbury "game-changer," Jay-Z suddenly became the most internationally popular live performer in hip-hop history.
As a measure of his post-Glastonbury clout, this year Jay will take his show on the road to such top-tier summer music fests as Tennessee's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan and Germany's Rock Am Ring, among others. And come Friday, Jay-Z arrives as the first straight-up rapper to claim a headlining berth at Southern California's crowning musical event: the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio. Others have graced the lineup -- Jurassic 5, Kool Keith, MURS, Kanye West and Aesop Rock, to name a few -- but none have done it at the top of the ticket.
Read More: Jay-Z widens the festival tent [LA Times]
Apr 5, 2010
PICS: Jay & Bee Dine at Wallse [4.4.10]
Celebrating the Easter holiday [and two years of marriage], Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z shared a romantic dinner at Wallse restaurant in New York City on Sunday (April 4),
With the "Halo" songstress sporting her hair brushed straight back, the lovely couple chowed down on the delectable Austrian cuisine before heading outside and driving off in Jay-Z's customized jeep.
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Apr 4, 2010
Jay & Bee Out & About 4.3.10
Dinner @ Nello's
Video [TMZ]: Leaving Nellos' thx to cheleny
Jay and Bee check out Broadway Musical Chicago
Bought the Jeep, tore the mf'in doors off ...
Mar 22, 2010
Mar 18, 2010
Alicia Keys, Jay-Z at MSG
Alicia brings out Jay as a suprise guest during her show at Madison Square GArden last night!
Mar 11, 2010
Jay-Z at the Barclays Center Groundbreaking
This afternoon, a press conference was held for the groundbreaking of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn Yards. Set to open in 2012, the 18,000 seat arena will become the new home of the New Jersey Brooklyn Nets. Many local residents oppose the move due to imminent increases in traffic and living costs. In attendance were Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Governor David Paterson. Nets co-owner Jay-Z, gave a brief speech, in which he paid homage to the memory of his nigga, Biggie. We did it Brooklyn! [via RapRadar]
Mar 5, 2010
Jay visits the White House!
Hi Haters! LOL
It was the president of rap meeting the President of the United States. During the Washington, D.C. leg of his trek in support of The Blueprint 3, the Carter administration (including Jay-Z, wife Beyoncé, her mom, tourmate Trey Songz and manager Kevin Liles) visited President Barack Obama at the one and only White House.
In the past, Hov has bragged in his raps that he he frequently chats with Obama "on the text" and recently told the media the commander in chief works out to his latest album, but nothing was more evident of their relationship when a few photos of Jay, B and company made its way to the Internet.
One of two photos depicts the cast sitting around a table awaiting Obama's arrival. Ironically, Jay sits in a chair directly underneath the Presidential seal that hangs slightly over his head. (Is that Obama's seat? Doesn't Jigga sort of look right in that spot?) via MTV.Com
Mar 3, 2010
NY-Z Trailer: Jay-Z Behind The Scenes
Last night’s BP3 Tour stop at Madison Square Garden was part of the ABSOLUT Concert Series at MSG. Absolut Vodka just released this trailer of their Jay-Z film, documenting the lead up to his concert on 9/11 at the Garden.
They commissioned rock photographer Danny Clinch to capture intimate and behind-the-scene moments with Jay at MSG. The documentary drops on March 22nd at facebook.com/ABSOLUT. [via Nahright]
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